The BRICS are a group whose great convergence is the desire for reform of the International System, aiming at the practical manifestation of the changes in power relations triggered by...
Professor Deborah Brautigam focuses on Sino-African relations, foreign aid, industrialization, state building and development. She is the author of The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford...
In the field of development aid, there is a trend of traditional donors losing of centrality and an increasing importance of emerging countries with new aid practices, particularly in the...
This Policy Brief uses the theoretical framework developed in the Cities-BRICS Policy Brief and complements it with the concept of sustainability, trying to verify if the model of social inclusion...
Ian Taylor is a professor in the Department of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University...
Published in 2010, China and Africa Development Relations is a collection of texts on cooperation between China and the African continent which has as editor and co-author Christopher Dent, a...
Throughout the ten chapters of his book 'Awakening giants, feet of clay. Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India ', Bardhan (2010) seeks to comparatively analyze the economic rise...
The Chinese presence in Africa has, since the last century, promoted projects in the infrastructure, natural resources, agriculture and the textile industry sectors. In fact, since the Cold War, it...
The present work is part of the construction of a hypothesis of research on the big cities that is based on the notion of semiperiphery. ...